30/01/2010

1932: Vampyr

Though the recency of the sound film invention still shows in this 1932 sort-of-horror film, it manages to create a somewhat Lost-Highwayesque dreamy athmosphere and is much more convincing as an aesthetic exercise than the similarly-themed 1922 Nosferatu or 1931 Dracula, both of which are nothing but unintentionally funny today. (7)

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